9 Called To The Main Hall

''Seen the Young Master!'' a Consistent cry called throughout the large hall. Dante Sat on a large crystal throne at the head of the meeting hall in his palace. Thousands of Servants kneeled infront of him.

After ordering Samuel to begin cultivating, Dante immediately called a meeting with all the servants in his palace. In order to facilitate his future actions Dante felt it was necessary to take some extra… Precautions.

He walked directly into a small room on the side and called each servant one by one. Despite them being his distant family members, Dante felt no pity towards turning them into his puppets.

Not to mention the benefits that will be provided through his special technique from thousands of cultivators, it is also necessary to hide the fact that he is going to be bringing in countless more spiritual creatures and random people.

After all, it is much more beneficial for his puppets to cultivate within his palace than the pendant.

Seeing the loyalty in the eyes of the thousands of people in front of him Dante felt an unprecedented satisfaction.

His excitement grew even more when he felt the horrible amount of energy pouring into him, within the servants there were 3 at the level of Fairy State and 1500 with a Rank 5 Physique and 500 with a Rank 4 physique.

This influx of energy was enough to push his second cultivation base into the spirit tempering realm immediately!

Dante quickly sat down and began absorbing all the energy provided, his already fairy-like spirit sitting in his mind burst out with unprecedented horror.

During the spirit tempering realm, typically one would improve their spirit to the same extent of their body in order to facilitate the large amount of power coursing through his veins.

However Dantes body had been strengthened by endless heavenly resources even before he was born! Unfortunately this led to his soul being much weaker in comparison to his body.

However this second round of spirit tempering seems to be the path to fix this. As Dantes spirit finally calmed down, Dante realised it was much more solidly visible compared with his old soul. If his last soul was Fairy-like then this was like an immortal descending from above.

Dante was sure that even if an Ancient attacked Dantes soul he could defend himself.

Dantes growth continued…

First stage of Spirit tempering...

Second Stage…

Third Stage…

Until it finally stopped at the Fifth Stage of Spirit Tempering.

Dante let out a relaxing sigh and fell asleep directly on the crystal throne. Luckily the already transformed fairy state puppets standing below realised their master's situation and immediately transferred him to his bedroom.

''Ahhh'' Dante let out a relaxed yawn as the sun trickled in.

''Young Master, the Patriarch has requested your presence in the main hall'' Before Dante could fully wake up, one of the puppet servants reported the situation to him.

Hearing this Dante panicked and slipped out a small blue robe commanding the little vine to wrap around his waist.

As for the spiritual beasts he had captured in the forest, Dante only took the small flower as a bow pin to hold his long hair in a bun. As for the rest they were placed in the palace's large garden.

Not only were there plenty of cultivation resources available in the garden it was also a rare holy place for cultivation.

Naturally Dante wanted all of the puppets to advance as quickly as possible, after all the faster they advance the more energy gets provided to Dante. With today's puppets, Dante gets enough energy for a mortal to reach the peak of bone refining state.

Unfortunately as the level gets higher, so does the energy requirement.

Finally, under these chaotic thoughts, Dante reached the Families main hall. The Gate was over a thousand metres tall, Dante was nothing but an ant in front of it. However what's even more surprising is the Gatekeeper.

Standing directly next to the huge gate was a strange stone statue matching the height of the gate.

'' Dante has seen the Gatekeeper'' Surprisingly Dante, who didn't even bow towards the elder, was almost at a 90 degree angle when facing the statue.

As a response the stone statue stunningly stretched out its huge arms and pushed open the giant gate.

Dante remained unsurprised by the stone statues movement. Actually this statue was crafted by a master within the Armstrong Family.

An ancient ancestor who was a master at producing various statues for the Armstrong Family, he was at the peak of the craft but the most he could was statues that couldn't even move their feet.

Therefore rather than wasting his time on researching more methods, he spent the next millions of years producing countless statues out of various rare materials in order to place them within the clan.

Rumor has it that within his practice area there are millions of statues all above the fairy gate rank.

Well to others it's a rumour, but for Dante he knew it was absolutely true. It was one of the family's hidden secrets, but naturally it can only be used when an enemy invades the family's secret world due to its inability to move.

But it is for that exact reason that the puppet emperor's technique was so powerful. With the almost immortal lifespan of an Antique Cultivator, if they had time to grow it would be easy to manufacture millions or even billions of powerful puppets.

This number is insane. Despite there being hundreds of trillions of people on this continent alone, the rarity of cultivators is still there. Let alone one in a million, even one in a couple of billion would be lucky to cultivate to the rank of the Fairy state.

As those thoughts passed through Dantes head he had already walked into the main hall. Despite the sheer size of the hall, the entire building was filled with rising steps each on which countless thrones were placed.

Seated in each throne were various people each adorning the Golden Human insignia on their chest.